A vast array of social problems afflict a country so recently traumatized by war. |
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Will regression afflict the developing countries as aging weakens the industrial world? |
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With its impure spirits, the evil eye is thought to afflict human beings, animals, agriculture and property. |
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He highlights the grinding poverty and harvesting problems which still afflict the population. |
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The sirocco of North Africa can afflict the vineyards of southern Europe, occasionally reaching France. |
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A former correspondent and editor covers the waterfront of problems that afflict higher education. |
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A number of serious diseases afflict the population, including malaria, tuberculosis, and cholera. |
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He had yet to be diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease that would afflict his old age and he was still fighting. |
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Admittedly, these conditions afflict a very small proportion of the population. |
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The financial deregulation he champions has led directly to the predatory, usurious lending practices that afflict the working poor. |
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One is able to regard the country as very healthy, despite the regrettable maladies that frequently afflict it in the form of plague, dysentery and small pox. |
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It is part of women's ongoing efforts to end violence and poverty that continue to afflict their gender in disproportionate measures. |
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Even though some people with rosacea had acne as teenagers, the disorder has little to do with the pimples and blackheads that commonly afflict teenagers. |
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He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. |
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They want to take on authority and comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable and all that hoo-ha. |
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We face major challenges in trying to put life into empty promises to reverse the ecological degradation and falling living standards that afflict much of the world. |
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It is necessary to face themes which at the present moment afflict humanity such as war and violence in all its forms. |
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The protagonist describes the miasmic ulcers that afflict everyone. |
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Diseases of the outer ear are those that afflict skin, cartilage, and the glands and hair follicles in the outer-ear canal. |
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The mid-air drama was not the first mishap to afflict the passengers. |
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Camels obviously evolved in an extremely harsh environment and are immune to diseases such as rinderpest and foot-and-mouth that afflict other mammals. |
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They don't deserve mudslides or earthquakes or crooked dictatorships or AIDS or a whole host of things that afflict them that you and I cannot stop, either. |
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We have drawn up a list of the main diseases and insects that afflict each group of fruit trees over a year. |
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However serious the material, his tone is light, as if it would be indelicate to thump home a message or afflict the reader with anything too distressing. |
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While chronic diseases can afflict anyone, their burden is not shared equally. |
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High food prices, drought and malnutrition, along with violent conflict, afflict millions of Afghans. |
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Social and psychological alienation and the many neuroses that afflict affluent societies are attributable in part to spiritual factors. |
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Dust storms carry toxic salts and afflict three quarters of the region's 3.5 million people with serious illnesses. |
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The top ten diseases among purebred dogs include several that afflict humans, including cancer, epilepsy, heart disease, allergy, retinal disease and cataracts. |
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Behold! thy Lord did declare that He would send against them, to the Day of Judgment, those who would afflict them with grievous chastisement. |
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As a result they provide alarm indicators for the problems that could afflict the European continent. |
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In another story, Columba banished some demons from Iona who then went to the island of Tiree to afflict the monks there instead. |
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They can help communities deal with the underlying factors, including the marginalization, social inequalities, discrimination, lack of opportunities, and hopelessness that afflict young people. |
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Chryses prays for Apollo's help, and Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army. |
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is equally at ease in formal and informal situations. Born at the beginning of the women's liberation movement, she questions the contradictions that afflict all self-assured people in this period. |
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New solutions are emerging to help people cope with the memory loss, impaired vision, hearing or mobility and loss of independence which are more likely to afflict us as we age. |
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Now, if you can just keep that inventiveness going a little longer, and avoid the common plot points and fogginess that afflict so many dreams, you will really have something. |
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For decades the lack of key vitamins and minerals, also known as micronutrients, has been known to cause the anaemia, cretinism, blindness, and goitre that afflict many millions of the world's people. |
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Only poverty has been truly globalized in our age. The overpraised neoliberalism and the omnipotent market is a mistaken vision and it is the root cause of some of the most serious problems that afflict us. |
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The same kind of conflict between different classes that had bedeviled medieval Europe would, albeit in muted forms, also afflict the United States, because the seeds of such competition were planted in human nature itself. |
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Perhaps the wilful obscurantism and dreadful English that now afflict humanities faculties in Britain as elsewhere have eroded their influence outside the academy. |
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So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. |
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But the power of a poisonous legacy does not afflict Labour alone. |
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That in itself presents them with a tricky dilemma, because playing for a draw is a dangerous game, especially if Petr Cech has another one of the brain melts that only seem to afflict him when playing for his country. |
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And it would give blacks a leader whose near-mythical reputation had hoisted him above the rivalries and dogmas that afflict so many of his followers. |
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As emergency and conflict situations continue to afflict the developing world, developed countries have responded by financing a growing volume of bilateral humanitarian aid out of shrinking aid budgets. |
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On the other side of it, this research adds to our understanding of who and what we are and how we function in the hope that we can correct some of the very horrible conditions that afflict people. |
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Many of the conditions which afflict the human nervous system cannot currently be treated or, if treatment is available, can only be treated with difficulty and with disappointing results. |
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In fact, the evils which afflict us, the vastness of problems, the immense number of those who suffer, represent an obstacle which cannot be humanly overcome. |
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However, grave ethical and social problems afflict many families today. |
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High levels of poverty and unemployment afflict the entire region. |
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And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. |
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In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 energy crisis, stagflation began to afflict the economy. |
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Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. |
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Rather like the reluctant schoolboy's 8am tummyache, there is often no foolproof diagnostic test for the multiple and diverse maladies that afflict footballers. |
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Physically, for a bloke of my age with a taste for booze and rich food, I reckon I'm doing OK, despite the accumulated decrepitudes that afflict me. |
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